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coronavirus emergency. the number of cases in the u.s. climbing as they soar overseas topping 17,000 in china. experts now fearing it could become a pandemic. winter storm warnings. 16 states now on alert for flooding, heavy snow and ice as a major new system barrels across the country. super bowl ads. the fun, surprises and that big reveal from tom brady. >> so it's time to say good-bye to tv as you know it. me? i'm not going anywhere. and the sizzling super bowl halftime show. shakira -- ♪ i'm still jenny from the block ♪ -- and jennifer lopez owning the stage. the meaning behind these moments and the surprise guest star. jlo's daughter taking the mic and what they told michael about their record-setting performance right here on "gma." ♪ let's get loud, ain't nobody got to tell you what you got to do ♪ ♪ good morning, america. talk about living up to the hype. that was a super bowl. >> the game was a thriller right to the very end, and the same could be said about the halftime show. >> it's true. we were screaming at the end, and we were screaming during halftime as well. it really was incredible, and this moment of course, where jennifer's 11-year-old daughter emme took the stage with mom. it was such a powerful moment. >> it really was. we were watching from here in new york, but michael was smack dab in the middle of it all, had a front row seat. you had a great time, my friend. whoo! look at you. >> i had a -- i had a great time. i mean, come on, robin. it's the super bowl. how could you not enjoy that? the game was incredible. you talked about you partied all night. these guys have partied all night. they have not gone to sleep since their big win last night, the kansas city chiefs haven't, and what a great game. what a great halftime show. everything about it was so exciting. patrick mahomes, the youngest quarterback to win mvp last year and also be a super bowl champion, not even 25 years old yet. and we also -- i'm going to sit down and talk to damien williams, the star player from last night. caught a touchdown, ran for a touchdown, 133 yards total for the game. he has carried the chiefs throughout the playoffs. so i'm excited to talk to him, and i'm also excited, like these guys, when this is all over, to get some sleep. >> that you are. all right. we'll get with you in just a moment, but we want to get to all that exciting action on the field. t.j. holmes is joining michael in south florida, and he has all the highlights for us. good morning, t.j. >> reporter: hey, good morning. 50 years, five decades, half a century. however you want to put it, they have been waiting a long time for this in kansas city, and for a little while last night, robin, it looked like they were going to have to wait even longer. the kansas city chiefs were down by two scores with seven minutes to play in this game. it looked like they might need a miracle. no. don't need a miracle when you have mahomes. >> and they have done it. chiefs are super bowl champions. >> reporter: after a 50-year wait, the kansas city chiefs are super bowl champs once again. they took down the san francisco 49ers for their second nfl trophy. kansas city behind its superstar quarterback patrick mahomes who led the charge in a thrilling come-from-behind victory. >> this moment belongs to kansas city. >> reporter: the stars were out in force. beyonce and jay-z, kevin hart and paul mccartney all in the house. both teams were looking for their first championship in decades. super bowl liv was billed as a battle between upstarts. the 24-year-old mahomes against niners quarterback jimmy garoppolo, former backup to tom brady. the game's first touchdown went to the chiefs on a short run by mahomes. >> takes it in for the touchdown. >> reporter: for only the fourth time in super bowl history, the teams were tied at halftime, but the niners came out of the break in form. >> he is in for the touchdown. >> reporter: mahomes struggled for a bit. the niners' swarming defense had last year's mvp on the run. >> mahomes is swallowed up in a sack. >> reporter: but trailing by ten in the final quarter, the chiefs' quarterback dug deep proving once again why he's now the new comeback kid. >> touchdown, kelce. chiefs are back in it. >> reporter: with less than two minutes to two, the chiefs sealed the deal with damien williams' wild 38-yard run up the sideline. >> it's good night, san francisco. >> 50 years. >> 50 years, baby. it's amazing to bring this, you know, bring this home in chiefs kingdom. i love y'all, man. >> ten down, fourth quarter. what was on your mind? >> nothing. get the ball into 15's hands. >> that's the plan, get it into 15 east hands. >> that's the plan. our offense is explosive. they can do some things, so we knew get him an opportunity, he would do something special and he did. >> reporter: chiefs head coach andy reid, the seventh winningest coach in history got his first super bowl victory. the 61-year-old got the shower as the game clock was winding down. >> how about those chiefs. >> do you feel like you thought it would? >> it feels great, man. >> reporter: the chiefs faithful packed into the power and light district erupted. [ cheers and applause ] mahomes in just his third nfl season was named super bowl mvp. >> hey, we're coming home, and it's going to be amazing. everybody be out there for the parade. we're bringing the lombardi home. >> reporter: home after a 50-year wait and an epic performance. and guys, i want to bring your attention to a tweet from patrick mahomes. check it out. he said, i bet it feels amazing to be the quarterback who says i'm going to disney world after winning the super bowl. but look at the date. february 6th of 2013, that was super bowl xlvii. that was a high school patrick mahomes tweeting that seven years ago, and here he is now, the guy who gets to say it. that is really something, incredible to see, guys. >> gives you chills. it really does, all right. we'll get back with you in a moment there, t.j. but michael is standing by with a very special guest. michael? >> reporter: hey, robin. i'm here with damien williams, number 26 in the program, number one in your heart. that's right. super bowl champion. how does it feel? super bowl champion, super bowl liv. >> man, just to hear you say that, it still don't feel real yet, you know? but it's amazing. i'm enjoying every moment of it. i have my family out here, my kids. it doesn't feel real yet. >> it must be really amazing for you because you started your career here in miami with the dolphins. you're going back to the stadium where you used to play, to win the super bowl in front of a lot of fans who had a chance to watch you while you were here. that's got to be special too. >> definitely. coming here as an undrafted guy at that, i came here with a chip on my shoulder. i kind of kept that chip on my shoulder always being overlooked and not really minding that. at the end of the day, i'm going to come out here and do my job. >> that you did do. two touchdowns in the game, and in 50 years, the chiefs have not been to the super bowl in 50 years. i'm not even 50 yet and i'm old. so that's a long time, my friend. but for you to bring this championship back to kansas city and also to do it with this coach, andy reid, who everybody has so much respect for, how does that feel? >> like you said, everybody has respect for him. you know, me not even knowing the guy personally, you know, before i got there, i already had the utmost respect for him and just being able to be in the building with him each and every day, just to see the type of person he is. he has a lot of personality. he's from california. he lets you know that a lot. but at the end of the day, you know, he's having fun. like i said, he's a big kid at the candy shop right now. >> yeah, and you guys, you were the comeback kids in the playoffs. down 24 against houston, down 10 against tennessee. you were down 10 in the second half. before you go, what was the speech like in the locker room at halftime when you guys were tied up 10-10? >> i was kind of, you know, get past, you know, everything that was going on as far as, you know, flashing lights and just, you know, the moment of being in the super bowl, and kind of just calm down and we know who we are as a team. let's just go out here and be ourselves. >> all right. but you're down by ten, time is running out. at what point did you say, okay, we got this? you weren't -- you must have been nervous down by ten. >> honestly, and i hope somebody finds the film for you. i'm going up and down the sideline talking to everybody, encouraging everybody. we're not out of this. we have been through it all. there's nothing that we haven't been through. everybody believes in one another, and let's go out here, and let's get this win. >> i tell you what, you guys believe in yourself. i can tell. undrafted out of oklahoma. you won the super bowl, and i love the fact you had your family with you. i saw you kissing your little girl. congratulations, damien. >> thank you. >> super bowl liv champ, get used to hearing it. all right? all right. okay, george. here with the champ. >> that was so much fun to watch. >> back to the other champ, george stephanopoulos. >> thank you. congratulations. we're going to move on to the race for the white house right now and it's decision day in iowa. the caucus is the first vote of the nation tonight. it's anyone's race. bernie sanders, joe biden, elizabeth warren and pete buttigieg all in the hunt. amy klobuchar hoping to break through. the big question, who has that last burst of momentum. eva pilgrim is on the scene in des moines. good morning, eva. >> reporter: good morning, george. it's a complete tossup at this point in what's been a really unusual race. you see bernie sanders' bus here behind me. the senator is not waking up in iowa on caucus day. sanders, klobuchar and warren are all in d.c. for the senate impeachment trial. all are planning to come back here tonight to watch the numbers come in. the first vote of the 2020 election cycle is here. it's a mad dash to the finish line. the democratic candidates for president making their final pitches to voters. >> every four years democracy starts here in iowa. >> i visited all 99 counties in iowa. >> now is the time for action. >> reporter: voters in the hawkeye state have a lot of options with ten candidates to choose from. those candidates crisscrossing the state in their final push with 60 campaign events on sunday alone. >> we need to get other people excited to caucus. >> reporter: for some like amy klobuchar and pete buttigieg, this race could be make or break. both touting their midwest roots, both needing to show well here to stay in. the four front-runners, biden, buttigieg, sanders and warren, all hoping to pull away from the pack, all drawing big crowds on the final night. joe biden with his largest in iowa to date. >> we can turn four years of donald trump into an aberration, an historical aberration. but eight years he'll change the country in a way we can't tolerate. we need you, we need you, we need you. >> reporter: it was so crowded inside of bernie sanders' event. there was a huge crowd out here. he actually stopped and spoke to them before going inside. >> in the last month alone, we have knocked on 500,000 doors. >> reporter: elizabeth warren skipping her signature selfie lines in a rush to get to more events. >> our democracy hangs in the balance, and at this moment, you will decide here in iowa, what do we do? >> reporter: mayor pete buttigieg packing this gym, spinning what his rivals say is inexperience into a selling point. >> i know there are some ads on tv saying that this is no time to take a risk on anybody new. but i would say at a moment like this, history has taught us we cannot take the risk of meeting a fundamentally new challenge by falling back on the familiar. we can't be afraid. >> reporter: but many voters still undecided. most here saying they know this decision is about much more than iowa. >> i think this is about a movement. i think this is different than any other election i have been a part of in my young adult life. >> reporter: and winning in iowa matters. since 1976, this state has predicted the democratic nominee seven out of nine times. george? >> eva pilgrim, thank you very much. let's bring in our chief political analyst, matthew dowd, for more on this. this is about as wide open a race in iowa we have ever seen. talking to the campaigns on the ground, it seems like a lot of the last-minute buzz is about bernie. >> bernie seems to have a energy in the final days of this. i think, as crow said, this is the most unsettled race i've seen in my political lifetime, having the multi-candidate field. i think as of today, we still have five or six candidates in the democratic party that have a legitimate shot at winning the nomination. it starts tonight. >> what makes tonight so unusually complicated this time around is you can report three different sets of results. >> they'll report the state delegate equivalency. they'll report the first number of votes and they'll report the last number of votes and so i think we're going to have to sit here tonight and figure out, one person won this, one person won this. what's clear out of tonight is, though it's unsettled, we'll know who is not in the race anymore. we'll know that more than anything else, as opposed to who is the leader in this pack. and i think as of tonight we'll know, will this race go all the way to convention? if it's as divided as we think it is and it comes out that way, this is a race that could go all the way until july. >> you have two camps on the democratic side. you have bernie sanders and elizabeth warren on one side, a progressive camp, and then you have joe biden, amy klobuchar, pete buttigieg, more centrist. then you have mike bloomberg hanging out for super tuesday. >> we'll see what iowa does tonight and they'll begin to settle those lanes as they call it. what we could get out of tonight is a very mixed field, but like bruce willis in "the sixth sense," some candidates will be dead, but they won't know it yet, probably until after new hampshire. iowa doesn't usually decide the nominee. iowa usually decides who's not going to be the nominee. >> it whittles down the field. matthew dowd, thank you very much. we'll have the iowa caucus live tonight and i'll be joined by matt and our political team. we're hosting the next debate. that's at 8:00 eastern. friday night we're hosting the final democratic debate at 8:00 eastern. amy? george, as the iowa caucuses get under way, president trump has a big week ahead preparing for his state of the union address tomorrow in the midst of his impeachment trial. the senate expected to acquit him on wednesday. senior national correspondent terry moran tracking all of that from the white house. good morning, terry. >> reporter: good morning, amy. it's a big week for president trump, a week that marks a turning point in his presidency. he will put impeachment behind him. senate republicans, as you say, are almost certain to acquit him in a vote scheduled for wednesday, and then tomorrow night he'll deliver his own opening argument for his re-election in that state of the union address. president trump will be the second president to give a state of the union address while on trial for impeachment in the senate. bill clinton, the other one, he got more popular after democrats failed -- after republicans failed to impeach him. we'll see what happens with president trump. he will tout, aides say, what he says is the greatest economy in american history, his america first foreign policy, changing immigration policy, and the rest of it. they won't tell us whether or not he will excoriate the democrats sitting in front of him, but he is donald trump. so expect some excoriation. amy? >> all right, terry moran. thank you. we will have live coverage of the impeachment trial starting at 11:00 a.m. eastern right here on abc. robin? amy, now to new details on that terror incident in london. a knife-wielding man killed by police after he attacked two people. maggie rulli is in london with the latest. maggie, we know that police are saying the suspect had recently been released from prison. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. exactly, robin. now this terrorist attack didn't happen at some iconic tourist destination. it happened right here in this regular neighborhood in south london and this morning isis has claimed responsibility claiming the attacker as one of their own. we know he's a 20-year-old man who began stabbing people out in broad daylight while wearing a fake suicide vest. three people were injured. we're told they're going to be okay. police were able to be here in minutes. police got here so quickly because this attacker was already under surveillance. the man had just been released from prison a few days ago after serving about half of his time on a terrorism-related offense. today the prime minister says he plans to announce new changes to further toughen up this prison system. guys? >> yeah. many are going to want to know why he got out of prison so soon. maggie, thank you. we are following a lot of other stories this morning. up next, the new concerns about the coronavirus. there are fears now it could become a pandemic. and that incredible halftime show with jennifer lopez and shakira. the moments you may have missed, and the meaning behind them. that's ahead, but first, let's go to ginger. i know i'm still dancing. that's for sure. we have a weekend washout in everson, washington. those flash floods have water rescues ongoing. this was a place that was included in the atmospheric river for the last week or so, had more than 15 inches of rain in the last seven days. now there's this storm, salt lake city, utah this morning with five inches. they'll expect more than a foot, and look at the map. denver could get thr to seven inches and oklahoma and texas are going to get snow too. your local weather in 30 seconds. first though, your select cities sponsored by ibm. we are just getting started on a big week, and we'll be right back. on a big week, and we'll be right back. wityour money almostes offered seems like it's frozen. but not here. with capital one, you can open a new savings account in about 5 minutes and earn five times the national average. open one from here. or here - in a capital one café. plus, there are no fees or minimums on savings or checking accounts because that's how it should be. this is banking reimagined. what's in your wallet? 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who was right there on the field and up with us again this morning? none other than michael strahan. michael. >> reporter: hey, robin. we have been talking about it for weeks. could not wait for j.lo and shakira's halftime performance, and a lot of fans, they have anticipated an incredible show, and as they say, the hips don't lie and neither do the reviews. they crushed it. people really loved the show, and they had a great time, and they looked like they had a lot of fun. that's right, t.j. >> reporter: hey, yeah. never imagined you and i would have this conversation about hips not lying on tv, stray, but what a show. they have been teasing us over the past several weeks. they've told us very little about this show over the past several weeks, but we knew from their history as performers, we knew they were going to put on a good show. we knew they were going to have surprise guests. what we didn't know is that an 11-year-old was going to steal the show. ♪ >> reporter: shakira and jennifer lopez making history as the first two latinas to share the super bowl halftime stage. ♪ i like it like that shakira using her high octane set to show off her performing prowess singing -- [ singing in foreign language >> reporter: -- shredding, and of course, dancing her way through the show-stopping numbers. ♪ my hips don't lie at one point joined by fellow latin chart topper bad bunny. ♪ don't be fooled by the rocks that i got ♪ ♪ i'm still jenny from the block ♪ >> reporter: and then there came j.lo. ♪ no matter where we go >> reporter: belting out her greatest hits like "waiting for tonight," and channeling her inner "hustler" with this. ♪ like a movie scene in the sweetest dreams i have pictured us together ♪ >> reporter: j.lo invited her fellow latin artist up for a fan favorite. [ singing in foreign language ] the two superstars eventually taking the stage together. shakira even joined in on the drums and then a very special guest, lopez's 11-year-old daughter, emme. ♪ born in the usa, born in the usa ♪ ♪ let's get loud, ain't nobody got to tell you what you got to do ♪ >> everybody over here. let's get -- >> reporter: one of a handful of political moments. commentators drawing attention to the symbolism of children in cages, making comparisons to families separated at the border. all while fiance alex rodriguez danced on the sidelines. ♪ the history-making show undoubtedly accomplished what the dynamic performers set out to do. >> when the audience walks away from it, what do you want them to feel? >> i want them to feel joyful. >> i was going to say happy, and inspired. >> that they just went to a great party, an all-inclusive party, a party that integrates cultures and diversity. >> thank you so much. >> and as they had told us, there would be a tribute to kobe bryant during the halftime show, and there was one, a subtle look, a shot they took above that showed a cross, a large cross that was lit in purple and gold, of course the laker colors. also another tribute to kobe bryant before the game. the players came out specifically and lined up on the 24 yard line. of course, that was kobe bryant's number that he wore for much of his career. 24, in honor of him and gigi, his daughter, and those other seven people that died in that helicopter crash. it was a fun night and also some poignant moments of remembrance, but a lot of conversation about that halftime show, and what a show it was. this one delivered. >> a lot of touching moments. i also loved when the world war ii veterans, the four 100-year-old men that were out there for the coin toss including a tuskegee airman. that was very special. so we saw a-rod dancing. michael, i think we saw you doing the same thing during the halftime show. >> reporter: yeah, a little bit robin. you couldn't -- no one was sitting down. everybody was standing up. everybody was dancing, and what they said they wanted to deliver for this halftime show, they definitely delivered. it was fun. it was energetic. it had the makings of one of the best halftime shows we have ever seen, and i loved the fact they represented the latino community which is so big in miami, in such a big way. i loved emme coming out. everyone just erupted when that happened. and you have two of the biggest female stars in the world on the stage at the same time. we were all very lucky to be there in person to witness it. i being on the field, which is the best vantage point to view this performance, and it was a great halftime show to go with a great football game. and i know they acknowledged kobe bryant. t.j. talked a little bit about that. but i want to say they also acknowledged my hall of fame brother, chris doleman, as well who passed away earlier this week. what a great game. what a great halftime show, and like i said, hips don't lie. >> i agree with t.j. never thought we'd hear you say that. >> like three times. >> i can't get it out of my head. i can't get it out of my head. >> we'll get back to you in just a little bit, michael. thank you. coming up next, from baby peanut to tom brady trolling the world, the ads that had people talking at the super bowl. ♪ can't touch this [sounds] kazoo sound ♪ ♪ (big freedia) hold up, you all kazoo? 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now to what appears to be an inevitable conclusion. what you're going to see today on the senate floor is closing arguments from the house impeachment managers, the lawyers for president trump. two hours each followed by a day or so in the senate where the senators themselves will speak basically for the first time during this trial and lay out how they're going to vote, why they're going to vote the way they're going to vote, their justification for the vote to either convict or acquit president trump. as i said, it appears to be winding down now after that key vote on witnesses last friday where the senate republicans, only two defected, and they defeated a democratic motion to call for witnesses and documents, a 51/49 vote in the senate. i want to bring in our senior congressional correspondent, mary bruce. that was the final turning point even though it looked from the very beginning that conviction was almost out of the question. >> reporter: george, there is a sense in the hallways here in the capitol this morning that everyone is increasingly resigned to the outcome here, that the president is now on track to almost certainly be acquitted. republicans that i've talked with are eager to get this over with. they want to move on and focus on the election to come this year. while democrats, they're downtrodden, frustrated by this entire process. they feel beat down by the fact that despite the intense argument that they have put forth that it doesn't seem to have moved the needle whatsoever. now, i suspect today from the democratic house managers you will continue to hear them make the case that the president's behavior presents a clear and present danger, that he threatened the upcoming election, that this is not a matter that can be decided at the ballot box, you simply can't wait that long. we have, interestingly, over the last 24 hours or so, seen an increasing number of republicans coming out and admitting that they don't think the president's behavior was appropriate, that they believe that -- they question the way that he has behaved in many ways, even some of the president's top defenders. we heard senator joanie earnist saying it's simply something she would not have done but they insist that it should be up to the voters. >> this is close to a party line vote. perhaps there's some chance that mitt romney votes to convict on one of the counts, although i don't think that's necessarily likely, but i know republicans are eyeing at least three democrats for possible votes on acquittal. joe manchin of west virginia, doug jones of alabama, kirsten cinema of arizona. >> reporter: they're facing a risky political decision. they are thinking about how this decision and their vote on the overall articles of impeachment will affect them back home. speaking of the impact of an election, they're concerned about politically what it will mean for them if they stick with their party and vote to -- not to acquit the president. so you're seeing a growing amount of pressure on them and democrats that i have talked to understand that that pressure may be overwhelming, that you may see at least one, if not two or three of those democrats side with republicans here. >> mary bruce, thank you. let me go to our chief white house correspondent jon karl. we're looking at the senate chamber. tomorrow night the president will be in the house chamber for a state of the union address, the second president in modern times to be giving his state of the union in the midst of an impeachment trial. >> reporter: extraordinary scene going back to the very chamber that voted to impeach him, the second time we've seen that happen, george, but also the first time that we will see a president who is in the middle of a re-election campaign do a state of the union after being impeached. so an extraordinary scene. i think that the point you raised with mary about the democrats that they are targeting is an important one. right now one of the talking points hit over and over again by the white house is that the vote in the house was bipartisan, it was a bipartisan vote against impeachment because you did have democrats who -- a very small group of democrats who voted against the impeachment in the house. now if they get this in the senate you can bet that that will be something that the president and his team will tout over and over again, which again is why there is pressure going the other way on those democrats so that they are united and vote to remove the president. but the president, no matter what, will claim exoneration in that speech. i think there is some frustration that this is still going on, that it will not be over. >> chief justice roberts has just gavelled in the trial. >> let us pray. arise, o lord, as we enter the final arguments phase of this impeachment trial. mighty god, we continue to keep our eyes on you, on whom our faith depends from start to finish. may our senators embrace your promise to do for them immeasurably, abundantly, above all that they can ask or imagine. lord, help our lawmakers to store your promises in their hearts and permit you to keep them from stumbling. grant that they will leave a legacy of honor as they seek your will in all they do. we pray in your amazing name, amen. >> please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. >> all: i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible and with liberty and justice for all. >> no objection, the journal of proceedings of the trial are approved to date. the deputy sergeant at arms will make the proclamation. >> hear yee, hear ye, hear ye. all persons are commanded to keep silence on pain of imprisonment while the senate of the united states is sitting for the trials of the articles of impeachment exhibited by the house of representatives against donald john trump, president of the united states. >> mr. chief justice. >> the majority leader is recognized. >> the senate will hear up to four hours of closing statements by the two sides. we'll take a 30-minute lunch break after the house has made its initial presentation. then we'll come back and finish this afternoon. >> pursuant to the provisions of senate resolution 488, the senate has provided for up to four hours of closing arguments equally divided between the managers on the part of the house of representatives and counsel -- and the counsel for the president. pursuant to rule 22 of the rules of procedure and practice in the senate when sitting on impeachment trials, the arguments shall be open and closed on the part of the house of representatives. the presiding officer recognizes mr. manager schiff to begin the presentation on the part of the house of representatives. >> mr. chief justice, members of the u.s. senate, counseling for the president, almost 170 years ago senator daniel webster of massachusetts took to the well of the old senate chamber not far from where i'm standing. he delivered what would become perhaps his most famous address, the 7th of march speech. webster sought to rally his colleagues to adopt the compromise of 1850, a package of legislation that he and others hoped would forestall a civil war brewing over the question of slavery. he said, it is fortunate that there is a senate of the united states, a body not yet moved from its propriety, not lost to a just sense of its own dignity and high responsibilities, and a body to which the country looks for confidence for wise, moderate, patriotic and healing counsels. it is not to be denied that we live in the midst of strong agitations and are surrounded by very considerable dangers to our institutions of government. the imprisoned winds are let loose, but i have a duty to perform and i mean to perform it with fidelity, not without a sense of surrounding dangers but not without hope. webster was wrong to believe that the compromise of 1850 could prevent succession of the south, but i hope he was not wrong to put his faith in the senate. because the design of the constitution and the intention of the framers was that the senate would be a chamber removed from the sway of temporary political winds. in federalist 65 hamilton wrote, quote, where else than in the senate could have been found a tribunal sufficiently dignified or sufficiently independent. what other body would be likely to feel confidence enough in its own situation to preserve unawed and uninfluenced the necessary impartiality between an individual accused and the representatives of the people, his accusers. hamilton explained this about impeachment. the subjects of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the conduct of men or an abuse of public trust. they are a nature which may with peculiar propriety chiefly relate to injuries done to the society itself. the prosecution of them for this reason will seldom fail to agitate the passions of the whole community and to divide it into parties more or less friendly to the accused in such cases there will always be the greatest distincter the decision will be regulated by the parties than innocence or guilty. they placed their hopes in you, the senate, to be the court of greatest impartiality, to be a neutral representative of the people uninfluenced by party or pre-existing faction, the innocence or guilt of the president of the united states. today you have a duty to perform. with fidelity, not without a sense of surrounding dangers, but also not without hope. i submit to you on behalf of the house of representatives that your duty demands that you convict president trump. i don't pretend that this is an easy process. it's not designed to be easy. it shouldn't be easy to impeach or convict a president. impeachment is an extraordinary remedy, a tool only to be used in rare instances of grave misconduct. but it is in the constitution for a reason. in america no one is above the law, even those elected president of the united states. i would say especially those elected president of the united states. you've heard arguments from the president's counsel that impeachment would overturn the result of the 2016 election. you have heard that in seeking the removal and disqualification of the president the house is seeking to interfere in the next election. senators, neither is true. these arguments demonstrate a deeply misguided or i think intentional effort to mislead about the role that impeachment plays in our democracy. if you believe, as we do and as we have proven, that the president's efforts to use his official powers to cheat in the 2020 election, jeopardize our national security and are antithetical to our democratic tradition, then you must come to no other conclusion that the president threatens the fairness of the next election and risks putting foreign interference between the voters and their ballots. professor dershowitz and the other counsellors to the president have argued that if the president thinks that something is in his interest, then it is by definition in the interest of the american people. we have said throughout this process that we cannot and should not leave our common sense at the door. the logical conclusion of this argument is that the president is the state, that his interests are the nation's interests, that his will is necessarily ours. you and i and the american people know otherwise. we do not have to be constitutional scholars to understand that this is a position deeply at odds with our constitution and our democracy. believing in this argument or allowing the president to get away with misconduct based on this extreme view would render him above the law. but we know that this cannot be true. what you decide on these articles will have lasting implications for the future of the presidency, not only for this president but for all future presidents. whether or not the office of the presidency of the united states of america is above the law, that is the question. as was written in an 1835 work "democracy in america" quote, the greatness of america lies not in being made more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults. in may of 1974, barry goldwater and other republican congressional leaders went to the white house to tell president nixon that it was time for him to resign and that they could no longer hold back the tide of impeachment over watergate. now, contrary to popular belief, the republican party did not abandon nixon as the watergate scandal came to light. it took years of disclosures and crisis and court battles. the party stood with nixon through watergate because he was a popular conservative president and his base was with him, so they were too. but ultimately as goldwater would tell nixon, quote, there are only so many lies you can take and now there have been one too many. the president would have us believe that he did not withhold aid in these sham investigations, that his july 25 call with the ukrainians with perfect, that his meeting with president zelensky on the sidelines of the u.n. is no different than a head of state meeting in the oval office, that his only interest in having ukraine announce investigations into the bidens was an altruistic certain over corruption, that the ukrainians interfered in our 2016, not russia, that putin knows better than our own intelligence agencies. how many falsehoods can we take? when will it be one too many? let us take a few minutes to remind you one last time of the facts of the president's misconduct as you consider how you'll vote on this important matter for our nation. those facts compel the president's conviction on the two articles of impeachment. mr. chief justice and senators, over the past two weeks the house has presented to you overwhelming and unconverted evidence that president trump has committed grave abuses of power that harmed our national security and were intended to defraud our elections. president trump abused the extraordinary powers he alone holds as president of the united states to coerce an ally to interfere in our upcoming presidential election for the benefit of his own re-election. he then used those unique powers to wage an unprecedented campaign to obstruct congress and cover up his wrongdoing. as the president's scheme to corrupt our election progressed over several months, it became, as one witness described, more insidious. the president and his agents wielded the powers of the presidency and the full weight of the u.s. government to increase pressure on ukrainian's new president to coerce him to announce two sham investigations that would smear his potential election poopponent and raise h political standing. by early september of last year the president's pressure campaign appeared on the verge of succeeding until, that is, the president got caught and the scheme was exposed. in response, president trump ordered a massive coverup unprecedented in american history. he tried to conceal the facts from congress using every tool and legal window dressing he could to block evidence and muzzle witnesses. he tried to prevent the public from learning how at the placed himself above country, and yet, even as president trump has orchestrated this coverup and obstructed congress' impeachment inquir he remains unapologetic, unrestrained and intent on continuing his sham to defraud our elections. as i stand here today delivering the house's closing argument, president trump's constitutional crimes, his crimes against the american people and the nation, remain in progress. as you make your final determination on the president's guilt, it is therefore worth revisiting the totality of the president's misconduct. doing so lays bear the ongoing threat president trump poses to our democratic system of government, both to our upcoming election that some suggest should be the ash tore of the president's misconduct and the constitution itself that we all swore to support and defend. donald trump was the central player in the corrupt scheme assisted principally by his private attorney, rudy giuliani. early in 2019 giuliani conspired with two corrupt former ukrainian prosecutors to fabricate and promote phony investigations of wrongdoing by former vice president joe biden, as well as the russian propaganda that it was ukraine, not russia, that hacked the dnc in 2016. in the course of their presentation to you, the president's counsel have made several remarkable admissions that affirm core elements of this scheme including specifically about giuliani's role and representation of the president. the president's counsel has conceded that giuliani sought to convince ukraine to investigate the bidens and alleged ukraine election interference on behalf of his client, the president, and that the president's focus on these sham investigations was significantly informed by giuliani whose views the president adopted. compounding this damning admission, the president's counsel has also conceded that giuliani was not conducting foreign policy on behalf of the president. they have confirmed that in pursuing these two investigations giuliani was working solely in the president's private personal interest, and the president's personal interest is now clear, to cheat in the next election. as giuliani would later admit, for the president's scheme to succeed, he first needed to remove the american ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch, an anti-corruption champion giuliani viewed as an obstacle who -- and i quote -- was going to make the investigations difficult for everybody. working with now indicted associates lev parnas and igor fruman, giuliani orchestrated a bogus months-long smear campaign against the ambassador that culminated in her removal in april. the president's sudden order to remove our ambassador came just three days after ukraine's presidential election in late april which saw a reformer, volodymyr zelensky, swept into office on an anti-corruption platform. president trump called to congratulate zelensky right after his victory. he invited president zelensky to the white house and agreed to send vice president pence to his inauguration, but three weeks later, after rudy giuliani was denied a meeting with president zelensky, president trump abruptly ordered vice president pence to cancel his trip. instead, a lower level delegation led by three of president trump's political appointees, secretary of energy rick perry, ambassador to the european union gordan sondland, and special representative for ukraine negotiations kurt volker, attended zelensky's inauguration the following week. these three returned from ukraine and pressed with president zelensky in a meeting shortly thereafter, they related their positive impression of the new ukrainian president and encouraged president trump to schedule the white house meeting he promised in his first call. but president trump reacted negatively. he railed that ukraine tried to take me down in 2016, and in order to schedule a white house visit for president zelensky, president trump told the delegation that they would have to -- and i quote -- talk to rudy. it is worth pausing here to consider the importance of this meeting in late may. this is the moment that president trump successfully hijacked the tools of our government to serve his corrupt personal interests. when the president's domestic political errand as one witness famously described it began to overtake and subordinate u.s. national interests, by this point in the scheme rudy giuliani was advocating very publicly for ukraine to pursue the two sham investigations. but his request to meet with president zelensky was rebuffed by the new ukrainian president. according to reports about ambassador bolton's account soon to be available if not to this body then to book stores near you, the president also unsuccessfully tried to get bolton to call the new ukrainian president to ensure he would meet with giuliani. the desire for ukraine to announce these phony investigations was for a clear and corrupt reason because president trump wanted to politically benefit -- wanted the political benefit of a foreign country announcing that it would investigate his rival. that is how we know without a duty that the object of the president's scheme was to benefit his re-election campaign. in other words, to cheat in the next election. ukraine resisted announcing the investigations throughout june, so the president and his agent, rudy giuliani, turned up the pressure this time by yielding the power of the united states government. in mid june the department of defense publicly announced that it would be releasing $250 million of military assistance to ukraine. almost immediately after seeing this, the president quietly ordered a freeze on the assistance to ukraine. none of the 17 witnesses in our investigation were provided with a credible reason for the hold when it was implemented and all relevant agencies opposed the freeze. in july jewell agiuliani and th president's appointees made clear to ukraine that a meeting at the white house would only be scheduled if ukraine announced the sham investigations. according to a july 19 email, the white house has tried to suppress this drug deal, as ambassador bolton called it, was well known among the president's most senior officials including his chief of staff, mick mulvaney and secretary of state, mike pompeo. it was relayed directly to senior ukrainian officials by gordan sondland on july 10 at the white house. everyone was in the loop. although president zelensky explained that he did not want to be a pawn in washington politics, president trump did not care. in fact, on july 25 before president trump spoke to president zelensky, president trump personally conveyed the terms of this quid pro quo to gordan sondland who then relayed the message to ukraine's president. later that morning during the now infamous phone call, president trump explicitly requested that ukraine investigate the bidens and the 2016 election. zelensky responded as president trump instructed, he assured president trump that he would undertake these investigations. after hearing this commitment, president trump reiterated his invitation to the white house at the end of the call. no later than a few days after the call, the highest levels of the ukrainian government learned about the hold on military assistance. senior ukrainian officials decided to keep it quiet, recognizing the harm it would cause to ukraine's defense, to the new government standing at home, and to his negotiating posture with russia. officials in ukraine and the united states hoped that the hold would be reversed before it became public. as we now know, that was not to be. as we have explained during the trial, the president's scheme did not begin with the july 25 call, and it did not end there either. as instructed, a top aid to president zelensky met with giuliani in early august and they began working on a press statement for zelensky to issue that would announce the two sham investigations and lead to a white house meeting. now let's be very clear here. the documentary evidence alone, the text messages, the emails that we've showed you confirms definitely the president's corrupt -- definitively the president's corrupt quid pro quo for the white house meeting. subsequent testimony further affirms that the president withheld this official act. this highly coveted oval office meeting to apply pressure on ukraine to do his personal bidding. the evidence is unequivocal. despite this pressure, by mid august, president zelensky resisted such an explicit announcement of the two politically motivated investigations desired by president trump. as a result, the white house meeting remained unscheduled just as it remains unscheduled to this day. during this same time frame in august, the president persisted in maintaining the hold on the aid despite warnings that he was breaking the law by doing so, as an independent watchdog recently confirmed that he did. according to the evidence presented to you, the president's entire cabinet believed he should release the aid because it was in the national security interest of our country. during the entire month of august, there was no internal review of the aid. congress was not notified, nor was there any credible reason provided within the executive branch. with no explanation offered and with the explicit, clear yet unsuccessful quid pro quo for the white house meeting in the front of his mind, ambassador sondland testified that the only logical conclusion was that the president was also withholding military assistance to increase the pressure on ukraine to announce the investigations. as sondland and another witness testified, this conclusion was as simple as two plus two equals four. if the white house meeting was of sufficient leverage to extract the announcements he wanted, trump would use the frozen aid as his hammer. secretary pompeo confirmed sondland's conclusion in an august 22 email. it was also clear that vice president pence was aware of the quid pro quo over the aid and was directly informed of such in warsaw on september 1 after the freeze had become public and ukraine became desperate. sondland pulled aside a top aid in warsaw and told him that everything, both the white house meeting and also the security assistance, were canaonditioned the announcement of the investigations that sondland, giuliani and others had been negotiating with the same aid earlier in august. this is an important point. the president claims that ukraine did not know of the freeze in aid, though we know this to be false. as a former deputy foreign minister has admitted publicly, they found out about it within days of the july 25 call and kept it quiet, but no one can dispute that even after the hold became public on august 28 president trump's representatives continued their efforts to secure ukraine's announcement of the investigations. is is enough to prove extortion in court, and it is certainly enough to prove it here. if that wasn't enough, however, on september 7, more than a week after the aid freeze became public, president trump confirmed directly to sondland that he wanted president zelensky in a public box and that his release of the aid was conditioned on the announcement of the two sham investigations. having received direct confirmation from president trump, sondland related the president's message to president zelensky himself. president zelensky could resist no longer. america's military assistance makes up 10% of his country's defense budget, and president trump's visible lack of support for ukraine harmed his leverage in negotiations with russia. president zelensky affirmed to sondland on that same telephone call that he would announce the investigations in an interview on cnn. president trump's pressure campaign appeared to have succeeded. two days after president zelensky confirmed his intention to meet president trump's demands, the house of representatives announced its investigation into these very issues. shortly thereafter, the inspector general of the intelligence community notified the intelligence communities that the whistle-blower complaint was being improperly handled and withhold from congress with the white house knowledge. in other words, the president got caught, and two days later, on september 11, the president released the aid. to this day, however, ukraine still has not received all of the money congress has appropriated and the white house meeting has yet to be scheduled. the identity of the whistle-blower, moreover, is irrelevant. the house did not rely on the whistle-blower's complaint even as it turned out to be remarkably accurate. it does not matter who initially sounded the alarm when they saw smoke. what matters is that the firefighters, congress, were summoned and found the blaze, and we know that we did. the facts about the president's misconduct are not seriously in dispute as several republican senators have acknowledged publicly. we have proved that the president abused his power in precisely the manner charged in article one. president trump withheld a white house meeting and essential congressionally appropriated military assistance from ukraine in order to pressure ukraine to interfere in the upcoming presidential election on his behalf. the sham investigations president trump wanted announced had no legitimate purpose and were not in the national interest despite the president's counsel's troubling reliance on conspiracy theories to claim the president acted in the public interest. the president was not focused on fighting corruption. in fact, he was trying to pressure ukraine's president to act corruptly by announcing these baseless investigations, and the evidence makes clear that the president's decision to withhold ukraine's military aid is not connected in any way to purported concerns about corruption or burden sharing. rather, the evidence that was presented to you is damning, chilling, disturbing, and disgraceful. president trump weaponized our government and the vast powers entrusted to him by the american people and the constitution to target his political rival and corrupt our precious elections, subverted our national security and our democracy in the process. he put his personal interest over those of the country, and he violated his oath of office in the process. but the president's grave abuse of power did not end there. in conduct unparalleled in american history, once he got caught, president trump engaged in categorical and indiscriminate obstruction of any investigation into his wrongdoing. he ordered every government agency and every official to defy the house's impeachment inquiry. and he did so for a simple reason, to conceal evidence of his wrongdoing from congress and the american people. the president's obstruction was unlawful and unprecedented, but it also confirmed his guilt. innocent people don't try to hide every document and witness, especially those that would clear them. that's what guilty people do. that's what guilty people do. innocent people do everything they can to clear their name and provide evidence that shows that they are innocent, but it would be a mistake to view the president's obstruction narrowly as the president's counsel have tried to portray it. the president did nots defy the house's impeachment inquiry as part of a routine branch dispute or because he wanted to protect the constitutional rights and privilege of his presidency. he did it consistent with his vow to fight all subpoenas. the second article of impeachment goes to the heart of our constitution and our democratic system of government. the framers of the constitution purposefully entrusted the power of impeachment in the legislative branch so that it may protect the american people from a corrupt president. the president was able to undertake such comprehensive obstruction only because of the exceptional powers entrusted to him by the american people. and he wielded that power to make sure congress would not receive a single record or a single document related to his conduct and to bar his closest aides from testifying about his scheme. throughout the house's inquiry, just as they did during the trial, the president's counsel offered bad faiths and meritless legal arguments as transparent legal window dressing intended to legitimize and justify the president's efforts to hide evidence of his misconduct. we've explained why all of these legal excuses hold no merit, why the house's subpoenas were valid, how the house appropriately exercised its impeachment authority, how the president's strategy was to stall and obstruct. we've explained how the president after the fact reliance on unfounded and in some cases brand new legal privileges are shockingly transparent cover for a president to dictate a blanket obstruction. we've underscored how the president's defiance of congress is unprecedented in the history of our republic. and we all know that an innocent person would eagerly provide testimony and documents to clear his name as the president apparently thought he was doing mistakenly when he released the call records of his two telephone calls with president zelensky. even as the president has claimed to be protecting the presidency, remember that the president never actually invoked executive privilege throughout this entire inquiry, a revealing fact given the law's prohibition on invoking executive privilege to shield wrongdoing. and yet, according to the president's counsel, the president is justified in resisting the house's impeachment inquiry. they assert that the house should have taken the president to court to defy the obstruction. the president's argument is as shameless as it is hypocritical. the president's counsel is arguing in this trial that the house should have gone to court to enforce its subpoenas while at the same time the president's own department of justice is arguing in court that the house cannot enforce the subpoenas through the courts. and you know what remedy they say in court is available to the house? impeachment for obstruction of congress. this is not the first time this argument has been made. president nixon made it too. but it was roundly rejected by the house judiciary committee 45 years ago. when the committee passed an article for obstruction of congress, for far less serious obstruction than we have here. the committee concluded that it was inappropriate to enforce its subpoenas in court, and as the slide shows, the committee concluded that it was inappropriate to seek the aid of the courts to enforce its subpoenas against the president. this conclusion is based on the constitutional provision vest there vesting the power of impeachment by the congress and the framers of the constitution of any role in the impeachment process. again, the committee report on nixon's articles of impeachment. once we strip the president's obstruction of this legal window dressing, the consequences are as clear as they are die for our democracy. to condone the president's obstruction would strike a death blow to the impeachment clause in the constitution. and if congress cannot enforce the sole power vested in both chambers alone, the constitution's final line of defense against a corrupt presidency will be eviscerated. a president who can obstruct and thwart the impeachment power becomes unaccountable. he or she is effectively positiabove the law and is more likely to engage in corruption with impunity. this will become the new normal. with this president and for future generations. so where does this leave us? as many of you in this chamber have publicly acknowledged in the past few days, the facts are not seriously in dispute. we have proved that the president committed grave offenses against the constitution. the question that remains is whether that conduct warrants conviction and removal from office. should the senate simply accept or even condone such corrupt conduct by a president? absent conviction and removal, how can we be assured that this president will not do it again? if we are to rely on the next election to judge the president's efforts to cheat in that election, how can we know that the election will be free and fair? how can we know that every vote will be free from foreign interference solicited by the president himself. with president trump the past is pro log. this is neither the first time that the president solicited foreign interference in his own election, nor is it the first time that the president tried to obstruct an investigation into his misconduct. but you will determine, you will determine, you will determine whether it will be his last. as we speak, the president continues his wrongdoing unchecked and unashamed. donald trump hasn't stopped trying to pressure ukraine to smear his opponent, nor has he stopped obstructing congress. his political agent, rudolph giuliani, recently returned to the scene of the crime in ukraine to manufacture more dirt for his client, the president of the united states. president trump remains a clear and present danger to our national security and to our credibility around the world. he is decimating our global standing as a beacon of democracy while corrupting our free and fair elections here at home. what is a greater protection to our country than ensuring that we, the american people alone, not some foreign power, choose our commander-in-chief. the american people alone should decide who represents us in any office without foreign interference, particularly the highest office in the land. and what could undermine our national security more than to withhold from a foreign ally fighting a hot war against our adversary hundreds of millions of dollars of military aid to buy sniper rifles, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, radar and night vision goggles so that they may fight the war over there, keeping us safe here. if we allow the president's misconduct to stand, what message do we send. what message do we send to russia, our adversary, intent on fracturing democracy around the world. what will we say to our european allies already concerned with this president about whether the united states will continue to support our nato commitments that have been a pillar of our foreign policy since world war ii. what message do we send to our allies in the free world. if we allow the president's misconduct to stand, what will we say to the 68,000 men and women in uniform in europe right now who courageously and admirably wake up every day ready and willing to fight for america's security and prosperity, for democracy in europe and around the world. what message do we send them when we say america's national security is for sale. that cannot be the message we want to send to our ukrainian friends or our european allies or to our children and our grandchildren who will inherit this precious republic. i'm sure it is not the message that you wish to send to our adversaries. the late senator john mccain was an astounding man, a man of great principle, a great patriot. he fought admirably in vietnam and was imprisoned as a p.o.w. for over five years, refusing an offer by the north vietnamese to be released early because his father was a prominent admiral. as you all are aware, senator mccain was a great supporter of ukraine, a great supporter of europe, a great supporter of our troops. senator mccain understood the importance of this body, this distinguished body, and serving the public, once saying, quote, glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you. the ukrainians and the europeans and the americans around the world and here at home are watching what we do. they are watching to see what the senate will do, and they are relying on this distinguished body to be constant to the principles america was founded on and which we've tried to uphold for more than 240 years, doing the right thing and being constant to our principles requires a level of moral courage that is difficult but by no means impossible. it is that moral courage shown by public servants throughout this country and throughout the impeachment inquiry in the ho e house. people like ambassador marie yovanovitch, her decades of nonpartisan service were turned against her in a vicious smear campaign that reached all the way to the president. despite this effort, she decided to honor a duly authorized congressional subpoena and to speak the truth to the american people. for this she was the subject of yet more smears against her career and her character even as she testified in a public hearing before congress. her courage mattered. people like ambassador bill taylor, a west point graduate who wears a bronze star and an air medal for valor, and his proudest honor, a combat infantriman's badge. when his country called on him he answered again and again and again in battle, in foreign affairs, and in the face of a corrupt effort by the president to extort a foreign country into helping his re-election campaign, an effort that ambassador taylor rightly believed was crazy. his courage mattered. people like lieutenant colonel alexander vindman who came to this country as a young child fleeing authoritarianism in europe, he could have done anything with his life but he too chose public service. putting on a uniform and receiving a purple heart after being wounded in battle fighting courageously in iran. when he heard that faithful july 25 call in which the president sold out our country for his own personal gain, lieutenant colonel vindman reported it and later came before congress to speak the truth about what happened. lieutenant colonel vindman's courage mattered. to the other public servants who came forward and told the truth in the face of vicious smears, intimidation, and white house efforts to silence you, your courage mattered. you did the right thing. you did your duty. no matter what happens today or from this day forward, that courage mattered. whatever the outcome in this trial, we will remain vigilant in the house. i know there are dedicated public servants who know the difference between right and wrong, but make no mistake, these are perilous times. if we determine that the remedy for a president who cheats in an election is to pronounce him vindicated and attack those who expose his misconduct. >> senators, before we break, i want to take a moment to say something about the staff who have worked tirelessly on the impeachment inquiry and this trial for months now. there's a small army of public servants down the hall from this chamber in offices throughout the house, and yes, in that windowless bunker in the capitol who have committed their lives to this effort because they, like the managers and the american people, believe that a president free of accountability is a danger to the beating heart of our democracy. i'm grateful to all of them, but let me mention a few. daniel goldman, maher batar, patrick bowlen, nicholas mitchell, daniel noble, deanna, emily simons, suzanne grooms, norm eisen, barry burke, joshua matz, doug letter, and wendy parker. some of those staff including some singled out in this chamber have been made to endure the most vicious, false attacks to the point where they feel their lives have been put at risk. the attacks degrade our institution and all who serve in it. you have asked me why i hired certain of my staff and i will tell you, because they're brilliant, hard working, patriotic, and the best people for the job. they deserve better than the attacks they have been forced to suffer. members of the senate, mr. chief justice, i want to close this portion of our statement by reading you the words of our dear friend and former colleague in the house, the late elijah cummings, who said this on the day that the speaker announced the beginning of the impeachment inquiry. as elected representatives, he said, of the american people, we speak not only for those who are here with us now but for generations yet unborn. our voices today, our messages to a future we may never see. when the history books are written about this tumultuous era, i want them to show that i was among those in the house of representatives who stood up to lawlessness and tyranny. we, the managers, are not here representing ourselves alone or even just the house. just as you are not here making a determination as to the president's guilt or innocence for yourselves alone, you and we represent the american people, the ones at home and at work who are hoping that their country will remain what it has always believed it to be, a beacon of hope, of democracy, and of inspiration to those striving around the world to

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